| I with bowl | |
|---|---|
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Yañalif |
| Sound values | [ɯ] [ɤ̆] [ɨ] |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
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Latin yeru[1][2] orI with bowl[3][dubious –discuss] (approximated in Unicode as Ь ь) is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet based on the Cyrillicsoft sign. It was introduced in 1928 into the reformedYañalif, and later into other alphabets for Soviet minority languages. The letter was designed specifically to represent the non-front close vowel sounds[ɨ] and[ɯ].[4] Thus, this letter corresponds to the letter⟨I ı⟩ in modern Turkic alphabets,[5][6][7][8][9][10] and the letteryery (⟨Ы ы⟩) in Cyrillic.
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The letter was originally included in theYañalif, and later also in the alphabets of theKurdish,Abaza,Sami,Ingrian,Kalmyk,Komi,Tsakhur,Azerbaijani,Bashkir andSuret languages, as well as in the draft reform of theUdmurt alphabet. During the project of the Latinization of the Russian language, this letter corresponded to the Cyrillic letter⟨Ы ы⟩. In Kalmyk, however, it represented palatalisation of the preceding consonant, thus corresponding to the Cyrillic homoglyph⟨Ь ь⟩. InSuret (Assyrian), this letter represented themid central vowel (ə), like in the word ьsra (ten).
In languages and alphabets that used this letter, the lowercase form of B was asmall capital⟨ʙ⟩ so that there would be no confusion between⟨b⟩ and⟨ь⟩.
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A Latin letter I with bowl hasn't been adopted intoUnicode because[original research?] of the concern that encoding it could open the door to "duplicating the whole Cyrillic alphabet as Latin letters."[1][2][11][3]